Pro-Trump attorney and fellow Georgia co-defendant, John Eastman, suggested the evidence in the Georgia RICO case is weak and, given “a fair trial,” he predicted all of the 19 defendants will be “fully vindicated.”
“This fight is 95% political and only 5% legal,” Eastman told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham in an interview that aired on Friday.
(Video: Fox News)
“We did nothing wrong,” he stated about the prominent conservatives who were indicted for attempting to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. “We were challenging an election with more than credible grounds on which to do so, and we thought it was important to do that. And so I keep speaking the truth wherever I go.”
“I’m not trying to make stuff up, so I don’t have trouble remembering what I said in one lie versus another lie,” he continued. “I have been speaking the truth all along. That makes it relatively easy.”
“There’s nothing that was done wrong here,” he reiterated, “and I think if we get a fair trial down in Fulton County, whether it’s in state court or federal court, I’m confident we will be fully vindicated, not just me, but all of the defendants.”
Eastman cautioned against the precedent the Georgia case, with a county prosecutor, could set.
“It’s a very dangerous thing,” he said.
He likened the practice to “the old Stalinist Soviet Union.”
“‘Show me the man, and I will show you the crime,'” he explained. “And when you got hundreds or thousands of local prosecutors, all of whom can make their political career by bringing these kind of charges, it’s a very dangerous thing.”
“Our federal criminal codes and our state criminal codes have gotten so expansive and so vague that any one of us can be charged by a creative prosecutor with three felonies a day,” he added. “And we need to put that genie back in the bottle real quick, or we will cease to be a free people.”
Asked if he had any regrets, Eastman admitted that he wished the “collateral consequences” hadn’t happened, but said he would have “stepped up again,” knowing what the stakes are.
“I think the stakes are very high,” he said. “If we don’t have fair elections, if we don’t have a rule of law in how those elections are conducted, then one of the most basic premises, the foundation stones of our country, is gone.”
“I think it’s important,” Eastman said. “Patriots need to stand up. Citizens need to stand up.”
Eastman was dragged on social media earlier in the week, with liberals claiming he “confessed to the crime” on Fox News.
‘He literally just confessed to the crime’: Libs lose it after Trump co-defendant, attorney John Eastman goes on TV https://t.co/XiQMyqu15U via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) September 1, 2023
As BizPac Review previously reported, in a separate “Ingraham Angle” segment that aired on Wednesday, Eastman said he urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to “accede to requests from more than 100 state legislators in the swing states to give them a week to try and sort out the impact of what everybody acknowledged was illegality in the conduct of the election.”
“He literally just confessed to the crime,” stated national security lawyer Bradley P. Moss on X.
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